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Are you currently monetizing this? What is your contact info?

as mentioned in an earlier post, mind sharing what else you'd like to see instead of food? how else would you like to use spotsy?

please do provide some feedback / insight on what you'd like to see. thanks!

This is because CodeAcademy (with the a) already existed (using the domain codeacademy.org). They changed their name to "The Starter League" in Sept 2012 [1].

[1] - http://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/code-academy-evolves-star...

shameless plug -- if you like "pointless" projects, check-out Pointless Corporation -- http://www.pointlesscorp.com

as you grow, managing utilization and bench time will be key to being profitable. each project has a built in "fiscal cliff" at the end of it, and having a good pulse on when to hit the gas on biz dev and when to ease off is really important in protecting profitability.

curious to hear what you found cringe worthy. was it the hiring/firing part, or was it how he described his client vetting process?

Boulder and Austin fit the bill for having both. DC, not so much (in the education realm, but with new charter schools popping up in DC, the situation is getting better).

that's exactly what i thought - the power of compounding is amazing to look at when you see it in action with higher dollar amounts.

Re: #2 - Vendors need to pay rent, suppliers, and employees - all of whom presumably don't accept BTC. So that's probably why you see Coinbase, BitPay, and others that default to converting BTC to fiat the moment of transaction.

regarding point #2, if you don't have an alumni connection in your network, yet you know that this is part of the formula for writing a successful application, then it's on you to figure out how to make those connections. that mentality of being "relentlessly resourceful" is straight from a pg essay [1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html

You should consider reaching out to the folks at CopyBlogger. They might be interested. All - have you considered writing a guest blog post about this new product?

Consider reading a book called "The Now Habit". The author discusses fear of success/failure and the inability to finish projects, and deems that these fears are what cause us to procrastinate. Then he provides a plan/approach/framework to overcome these fears.

don't know, but you could probably email the lawyers that wrot e this blog post and find out. contact information for various ACLU lawyers is listed in the filing [1] found on the blog post.

[1] http://www.aclu.org/national-security/latif-et-al-v-holder-e...

What's interesting is that while the media is attacking Snowden for his lack of "elite" higher-education credentials, a cursory look at these analysts reveal that they too don't have the "elite" higher-ed credentials.

Several profiles list University of Maryland University College [1] (an online state institution with very similar operations as competing for-profit schools), American Military University [2][3][4](for-profit school), community colleges [5], and so on.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidamerson

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/linnea-jones/67/319/8b9?trk=pub-...

[3] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/taina-robles/56/4b9/3a1?trk=pub-...

[4] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/danna-rey/18/252/2bb?trk=pub-pbm...

[5] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/shawn-atkinson/14/1b3/587?trk=pu...

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family friendly can be parsed many ways, but in general, it's some weighted combination of outdoor/parks/community programs, crime rate, public school quality, the ratio of kids to adults and seniors in the area, median house size, etc.

any recs on family friendly cities/towns in the east bay for those looking to move out to bay area soon? my wife and i plan on working in SF proper. her firms SF office is located near embarcadero BART, and i'm still looking for a gig.

Could the university you work for provide you with a second machine whilst the first machine runs experiments?

google app engine (based on python)

if you're not using ebay's api, then how are you gathering this data? or am i reading this incorrectly and you are indeed using ebays api?

or massive, multi-million dollar ad buys and "agency of records" to promote the product.

This is solid content, but I was expecting a comparison of Coursera, udacity, KhanAcademy, and edX.

Additionally, may want to add a summary chart using one of the four variations to present a SWOT analysis --

http://i1-win.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/SWOT-ANALYSIS...

Here's a response from the ACLU - http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/justice-departmen...

Why did it fail? What went wrong w the startup?

if you haven't already filled out a beta invite form, please do. we'd love to chat w you on how you go about handling referrals.

at this point, yes, they'd have to be using this too. in the future, though, we were thinking of implementing sharing with unique URLs (like youtube does it with unlisted videos) that don't require login/registration.

thanks! obviously this is our MVP landing page, so we'd definitely appreciate critical feedback. especially pertaining to the site copy, the concept, and anything else that seems to stick out.

Glad to see that you're using Gumroad, but here's an alternative place to sell "previews" of the book -- http://timebx.com/.

Might be worth a shot later down the road when you are trying to sell to a less captive audience (as compared to the HN crowd).

I'm a huge fan of these two shows:

On Point - Two hours daily that has lively conversations that cover everything from breaking news to ancient poetry, and features writers, politicians, journalists, artists, scientists and ordinary citizens - http://onpoint.wbur.org/

To the Point - A news based one-hour daily program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day - http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp

Cheers!

Think beyond the rap content and consider it to be a text annotation content engine. The applications/use cases span beyond rap.

this reminds me of what stackoverflow has done - verticalized Q&A sites based on what they validated/proved with stackoverflow itself.